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Fujairah to host Pan-Arab cultural forum
The Fujairah Cultural and Media Authority (MCMA) have announced plans to host a cultural forum in Fujairah, aimed at reviving the Arab Decade of Cultural Development 2005-2014, a pan-Arab cultural initiative.
- By Fuad Ali, Staff Reporter
- Published: 16:09 April 27, 2008
Fujairah: The Fujairah Cultural and Media Authority (MCMA) have announced plans to host a cultural forum in Fujairah, aimed at reviving the Arab Decade of Cultural Development 2005-2014, a pan-Arab cultural initiative.
The initiative was created by the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organisation (ALECSO) during the tenth meeting of Arab cultural ministers in 1997 in Tunisia.
The Fujairah forum, says Mohammad Saeed Al Dhanhani, Chairman of MCMA, will invite a host of leading Arab cultural intellectuals to work on a number of recommendations on how to boost cultural development in Arab countries.
The recommendations of the three-day forum, to be held between the 25th and 28th of May, will then be forwarded to His Highness Shaikh Hamad Bin Mohammad Al Sharqi, Ruler of Fujairah and Member of the Supreme Council.
The forum will also host a number of international personalities of culture and development, which organisers say is an effort to build bridges between the Arab and Western worlds and an opportunity for cultural exchange.
Brief History
Name: The Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organisation (ALECSO).
Established: 25th of July, 1970, in Cairo, Egypt.
Members: 22 Arab countries, including all GCC countries.
Permanent base: Tunis, Tunisia.
Organisation's aims: To create a Pan-Arab shared intellectual base through educational, cultural and scientific development.
The Initiative: The Arab Decade of Cultural Development, first proposed after the end of the International Decade of Cultural Development 1988-1997.
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